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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:29:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Glen Gross <ggross@symark.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003170227210.63307-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003170506430.44153-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:

> I've long wondered if there's not a better word than RELEASE to append
> to these .0 versions.  Perhaps 4.0-BETA or something equally scary
> will keep the enterprise users away from a .0 version.

Yeah, it'd also keep everyone else away from it too, and we'd have the
same problems whenever it was that the BETA label was finally
dropped, and people would complain because a product which was just out
of beta had bugs, and should have stayed in beta longer :)

Kris

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